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Claude Opus 4.6 vs LLaMA 3.2

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Meta
LLaMA 3.2
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMeta
Release dateFeb 5 2026Sep 25 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
1B/3B
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
87%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
80.8%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
75%
Web browsing
BrowseComp
83.7%
Multidisciplinary reasoning
Humanity's Last Exam · with tools
53%
Science
GPQA Diamond
91.3%
Community preference
Arena Elo (Text)
1504
Community preference (code)
Arena Elo (Code)
1543
Timeline
Release gapLLaMA 3.2 shipped 498 days before Claude Opus 4.6

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.6 or LLaMA 3.2?

Claude Opus 4.6 and LLaMA 3.2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 3.2 shipped 498 days before Claude Opus 4.6, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary, while LLaMA 3.2 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.6 and LLaMA 3.2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.6 was released by Anthropic on Feb 5 2026.

LLaMA 3.2 was released by Meta on Sep 25 2024.

Claude Opus 4.6 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 3.2 is an open weight model released by Meta.

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